BlackBoard Information

To access the BlackBoard site at St. Mary's, click here.

Here are some "how-to" guides for using BlackBoard. I will add more as I make them. If you have any ideas for something you would like to learn how to do, please contact me and let me know! Also, please let me know if any of the files or links do not work and I will fix them as soon as I can!

Quicktime movies can be paused by clicking anywhere in the browser window and restarted with a double-click.

 

Introduction and basic navigation

This PDF provides a quick tour of the standard components of a BlackBoard course. It also has links to the St. Mary's BlackBoard site and contact information for the Help Desk and Doug Toti. Click here to download the PDF.

10 Steps to Creating your BlackBoard Course

This is a PDF from BlackBoard.com that provides some instruction on getting prepared to set up a course in the BlackBoard Course Management System. Click here to download the PDF.


Copyright Information

This PDF from BlackBoard provides some basic guidelines to understanding the Fair Use regulations involving the use of video, audio and print media in BlackBoard Courses. Click here to download this PDF.

Changing Your BlackBoard Password

This QuickTime video shows you how to change your password in BlackBoard. Unlike your SMCM email password, your BlackBoard password can remain the same indefiintely, and does not have any complexity restrictions. To view this video click here.

Making Your Course Available

When course are created in the BlackBoard system at the beginning of each semester, they are, by default, created in the "unavailable" state. In order for students to start using your course, you will have to make them available. This PDF and Quicktime movie show you how to do this. PDF          

User Management

In this section you will learn how to add a user to a course, how to change the role of that user from a student to an instructor, and how to remove an individual from a course. PDF          

Cleaning Up "My Courses" List

This document shows you how you can clean up the "My Courses" section of listed on your Blackboard Homepage. By following these, instructions you can display only those courses you wish to display. PDF

Copying Materials (Including student enrollments) from One Course to Another

This document shows you how you can copy Course Documents, Announcements, Grade Center Settings and even course enrollments between 2 courses. PDF

How to Use the Grade Center

Here are a coupld of documents providing instruction on Bb's updated Grade Center. This one is more detailed, while this one is more diagramatic and shorter.

 

 

 

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